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Cherish the Ladies
American Celtic music group
Cherish the Ladies | |
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Joanie Madden | |
| Origin | New York City |
| Genres | Irish folk, Celtic |
| Years active | –present |
| Members | Joanie Madden Mary Coogan Mirella Murray Nollaig Casey Kathleen Boyle |
| Past members | Aoife Clancy Eimear Arkins Siobhan Egan Winifred Horan Eileen Ivers Liz Knowles Donna Long Maureen Doherty Macken Mary Rafferty Deirdre Connolly Marie Reilly Cathie Ryan Heidi Talbot Michelle Burke Roisin Dillon |
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Cherish the Ladies is an American female super organization that plays Celtic music.
The band began as a concert series in New York in January It was the brainchild of Mick Moloney who wanted to showcase the brightest female musicians in America in what had been a male-dominated scene. The group took its mention from a traditional Irish jig called "Cherish the Ladies", and the series opened to sold-out concerts.
Their leader Joanie Madden plays flute and tin whistle.
Irish-American soprano vocalist and songwriter Cathie Ryan grew up in Detroit, Michigan, surrounded by traditional Irish influences. But I always thought you had to undertake one or the other: you were either an American singer or you were an Irish singer. It has taken moment to understand that I can be both. Cathie has released several solo albums and is featured on more than forty compilations of Celtic Music.The other members of the collective play a wide variety of instruments. Their albums contain both tunes (instrumental tracks) and songs (tracks with vocals).
Background
Joanie Madden was born in the Bronx, New York, to Irish parents and is an All-Ireland champion on the flute and whistle.
She became the first American to win the senior all-Ireland championship on the tin whistle in [1] Since , she has been the central coerce behind Cherish the Ladies, driving them to international acclaim.
The group has been a launchpad for many of the highest female musicians in Celtic melody, including Eileen Ivers, Winifred Horan of Solas, Cathie Ryan[2]Heidi Talbot, Liz Knowles, Aoife Clancy, and Deirdre Connolly.
Over the course of the past thirty-nine years[when?], the band have played in the finest concert halls and have performed in North and South America, the UK, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. Their shows are always accompanied by world-class step dancers on stage.
Cathie Ryan - Wikipedia: Cathie Ryan is an Irish American singer-songwriter, who has released five CDs and tours steadily with her band performing at festivals, folk clubs, performing arts centers and with symphony orchestras.They have recorded many albums, but their album The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone stands apart from their other albums in that it consists mostly of songs and includes guest appearances by Arlo Guthrie, Tom Chapin, Pete Seeger, Eric Weissberg, Matt Molloy, and The Clancy Brothers.
Cherish the Ladies has also recorded a track on the Grammy-nominated album, The Celtic Album with the Boston Pops.
Although the group was originally formed from Irish-American female musicians, the current lineup, along with Madden, consists of founding member Mary Coogan (from New York) on guitar, All-Ireland Champion Mirella Murray from Connemara, County Galway, on piano accordion; pianist Kathleen Boyle from Glasgow, Scotland; fiddler Nollaig Casey from Bandon, County Cork, and Kate Purcell from County Clare on vocals.